Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-30
POLITICAL.
What the New York Herald and Times
Say of Sherman and Blaine and
The Campaign of 1855.
The Chicago Democratic Convention sd
journs Without Selecting a NUM-
cipaI Ticket.
Sherman and Blaine .


NEW YORK, March 29.-The Herald
says: Senator Shermanls speech in Gin
cinnati was a forcible exposition OF pub
lie policy from Republican standpoint.
He seems to have gone into the campaign
for the next president with the energy of
cyclone which tears up everything by
the roots as it goes along. OF course We
do not agree with ali the statements OF
the Senator. The main point, however,
is that Mr. Sherman is the frs man in the
field. He has taken time by the fOrelOCk
and has succeeded so well. in Nashville
and CINCINNATI that Mr.. Blaine must needs
grasp his teeth. The solemn truth has
daWned on the Augusta statesman that lie
has not q moment to lose, that he IS q
little late already, and that he must be up
and doing or all will be lost. So he
starts in haste for the tar west to get
glimpse of the appropriation over which
the President presides, and to negotIste
for the possibilities of the future.
The Times says: II would be inter
estlng to know on what issue the Repub-
hcans expect 70 enter the next national
campaign. None at The present time
seems to he very clear in the minds of the
leaders who are speaking from moment
to time, orin those of the party newspaper
editors who do not enjoy the precious
privilege of saying nothing when there is
nothing to say. OF the men who may, or
think that they may, be chosen TO lead
the Republican host, Mr.. Sherman has
Just come back from the south and
MIR. Blaine has started fer the
west. The former has spoken,
the latter has been spoken about. What
is said by one and what is said of the
other throws some light on what the issue
is not to be, but very little on what it is
to be. 1t is plain, for instance, that there
is going to be good deal of trouble in
making issues. AS to the VindiCatiOn of
Mr. Blaine, on that point the distinguished
eX-candidate need not go west to fine cut
what some of his former advocates and
present admirers think. The press Of
Iowa and Wisconsin that have been in
cluded in the published itineraCy Of Mr..
Blaine have recently contained statements
TO the effect that he is an impossible"
candidate for 1888. These statements do
not settle the question, but they are sig
nihcant. He who runs may read the
signs they afford, and they will not
be lost on MIR. Blaine. Mr.. Sher-
man in the various remarks ne
has made since his return to Ohio has
made another thing clear, even clearer
than Mr.. BlaIne's prospects, and that is
there Will be no campaign made on the
southern question next year. The states
that Mr.. Blaine drove away in his
notorious Portland speech on the. morn
ing of the election are rudeIy and even
contemporary pulled up by Mr..
Sherman and thrown into the dirt
The negroes in the south are not being
or worked at starvation wages
and Mr.. Blaine said they were and Would
he. The W0rkingmen of the north are in
no danger of competition from cheaper
and more helpless than slave latOr, as Mr..
Blaine said they WOnld be. Mr. Sherman
reports that there is good feeling between
the races, that the negroes are not only |
safe, but Industrious, busy and prosper
Gus. The stories of southern progress, |
he says, are not exaggerated. That |
region is developing rapidly. Under |
the influence of peace, industry |
and enterprise, it has become IN a |
marked sense "patriotic. 1t will no |
longer do to hold it up as a bug-a-boo to |
brighten either political babies or dotards |
in the north. It's interests are ours. It's |
prinCi. les and purposes are |
ours. It's representatives are in every |
market of the north and ours are all over |
the south. A common bond of constant |
on 8 basis of mutual conf !
dence and respect is becoming every day |
stronger. Obviously there can be no use |
for the bloody shirt in the next canvass. |